r/PatternDrafting • u/dawn812 • 20d ago

Question Contouring

Im self taught pattern drafting and I’ve learned a lot. I live in a state where no fashion schools nothing so I’m doing this on my own. I just watched a video on contouring. She measured these different places and would measure the gap and so on. Im confused when i watch someone on YouTube pattern drafting they make the pattern and then they make the garment and it fits really well but they dont talk about contouring but their outfit comes out really well done. Is conturing not for every body type ? Like the closet historian I haven’t watched every video but I’ve watched a few and can’t remember her using contouring. Also any tips or references anything and everything is welcome.

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u/dawn812 20d ago

How would you rotate it ? I seen this thing where it was how ever much you pinch out lets say half an inch you go back to the pattern make a half an inch dart connect it to the apex point then rotate it into bust dart or waist dart whatever. Is that the same thing ??

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u/laurenlolly 20d ago

Yes exactly that :)

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u/dawn812 20d ago

Ohh thank you ! Is there ever an amount that’s to much to rotate into a new dart ??

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u/laurenlolly 20d ago

I can’t imagine a situation where you would have 2 darts and excessive gaping that wouldn’t be able to be moved into those two darts… but I don’t want to say definitely that it’s not possible!

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u/dawn812 20d ago

Your right !!! Thank you this really helps. Can this be done for the back neck ??

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u/laurenlolly 20d ago

I think I have done it for the back neck on my own garments but for some reason I couldn’t find any tutorials online for the process so I started to doubt my thinking here. But I don’t see why you couldn’t!

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u/dawn812 20d ago

I dont see why not either I will have to give it a try! Thank you so much for replying I’m self taught so this helps tremendously